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Four years ago to almost the day I joined Wikia, and in my time
here I’ve survived product releases, MediaWiki upgrades and many,
many hours of working on templates. Today I’d like to say thank you
to all those that have helped me learn here - whether it’s a blog
comment, a message on my wall or an email, I’ve appreciated the
support, openness and enthusiasm within the Wikia community. I’ve
grown a TON here and now am ready for my next adventure. My last
day as Wikia Staff will be this Friday September 27th.

I’ve been continually impressed by the dedication of Wikians to
their communities and amazed by the support I’ve received from both
staff and users. Over the years I’ve built out our webinar series,
created how-to videos, …

Today you may notice something is a bit different here on Community
Central - a new theme, wordmark and main page design! We're happy
to unveil this new design, which incorporates a fresh new look
along with our official Wikia brand colors.

This skin is designed with Darwin in mind, and draws attention
to the goal of Community Central: conversation. Users collaborate
to answer each others questions, come together to learn about new
features and join others in chat about their favorite wikias here.
Community Central is a place for long time Wikians and our newest
members to gather, and we hope this design encourages even more
great conversation.

Have you ever watched a video online, thought it would be great
for your wiki, added it and then come back the next day only to
find that the video has been taken down due to copyright issues?
This happens often with videos from sites like YouTube, where the
content is not properly licensed. To offer you another solution,
we’ve created Wikia Video, which contains 100% licensed and high
quality videos for you to use on your community.

This week we’ve released another tool to make it easier for you
to replace your non-licensed videos with our licensed
videos—Licensed Video Swap (LVS). This is a new tool that allows
admins to quickly swap videos from outside providers to the same
(or very similar) video that exists on Wikia Video. How does
thi…

I'm excited to announce that we will be hosting our second live
Google+ Hangout on Air at 4pm PDT today. This hangouts's
topic is using Social Media (specifically Twitter) to help promote
and grow your Wikia community.

Myself, along with Wikia staff members and Nate Blonkenfeld will
be live on-camera offering tips and tricks, as well as responding
to your questions!

Prior to our hangout, feel free to post questions here on what
you would like to see covered. You can also tweet your questions to
@Wikia_Community on Twitter now or during the session.

The video is embedded here and will be begin playing live at 4pm
PDT today. You can also watch it directly from our Wikia Youtube
page.

Hi, big thanks to those who came to today’s Templates Deep Dive
webinar. Apologies for the sound issues, especially since it cut
the Q&A session short and we couldn’t get through many of the
questions.

We plan to re-record the presentation soon with better sound
quality, and will post a link. In honor of today’s issues, Kirkburn
has evolved from a Tyrantasaurus Editus to a MechaTyrantasaurus
Editus.

If you have questions still outstanding, and I’m sure some of
you do, please post them below and we will write a followup answers
over the next week to go through as many as we reasonably can. You
can also always ask questions on Community Forum's Technical Board.
We've added a few of the Q&A questions in the comments below to
start.